The following is taken from the Saint John, NB, Morning News, published Monday, Wednesday and Friday of each week. You will find that the editor of this paper had a sense of humor. This is the first paper I have seen which used the terms, "The Alter" and "The Tomb" for the Marriages and Deaths. Occasionaly, you will see items taken from the weekly, New Brunswick Courier and ship arrivals from this paper that differ from the Morning News are marked with an asterisk (*). Starting on July 3, 1847, the Courier printed the list of the dead at the Quarantine Station, Partridge Island. those names are included.

Saturday, June 5, 1847 (New Brunswick Courier)

Note: these are only from the weekly Courier - the Morning News will be added.

Date

Vessel

Master

Sailed

From

Passengers

Consigned/Comments

May 29

Barque Ins

Hannah

38 days

London

to T.S.
Estey

May 29

Atalanta

Clarke

23 days

New York

to James
Adam

May 30

Barque
Orbit

Larkin

50 days

Greenock

to James
Kirk

May 30

Shakspeare

Henderson

24 days

Liverpool

to John
Mackay,
salt, &c.

May 30

Brigantine
Leander

Homer

2 days

Barrington

to Chas.
McLauchlan

May 30

Schr.
Exemplar

Lockhart

8 days

New York

to J. & R.
Reed, corn,
&c.

May 31

Ship
Æolus

Driscoll

31 days

Sligo

passengers

to order

May 31

Symmetry

McKinnell

6 days

New York

to James
Kirk

May 31

Barque
Ceylon

Bulla

7 days

New York

to R.
Rankin &
Co

May 31

Hindoo

Hughes

3 days

Boston

to Wiggins
& Son

May 31

Governor
Douglas

Clark

36 days

Baltimore
(Ireland)

passengers

to order

May 31

Brig
Edwin

Leonard

30 days

Harrington

to Jas.
Kirk

May 31

Schr.
Louisa
Willard

Sharp

9 days

New York

to master,
flour, &c.

May 31

Sophia

Douglas

9 days

New York

to Hugh
Davidson,
flour, &c.

May 31

David

Yorke

5 days

Galway,
via Halifax

passengers

to Jas.
Kirk

May 31

Alida

Lawrence

9 days

Boston

to C.E.
Cross,
assorted
cargo

June 1

Brig
Beacon

Turner

56 days

Sunderland

to John
Robertson,
coals

June 1

Schr.
Roanoke

Herrington

15 days

Philadelphia

to Jardine
& Co,
flour and
corn

June 1

Gen.
Foster

Spates

23 days

Philadelphia

to George
Thomas,
flour and
wheat

June 1

Victoria

Hammend

8 days

New York

to master,
flour and
wheat

June 1

Hesperus

Reed

4 days

Boston

to master,
assorted
cargo

June 1

Woodlands

Salter

6 days

Boston

to G. & J.
Salter,
assorted
cargo

June 2

Steamer
Herald

Brown

Eastport

passengers

to Jas.
Whitney,
flour, &c.

June 3

Ship
Oriental

Hoyt

6 days

New York

to Thomas
Wallace

June 3

Barque
Wave

Kydd

6 days

New York

to R.
Rankin &
Co.

June 3

Susanna

Kydd

6 days

New York

to R.
Rankin &
Co

June 3

Lord John
Russell

Richards

8 days

New York

to J. & H.
Hamm

June 3

William
Carson

Robertson

6 days

New York

to Thos.
Vaughan

June 3

Brig
Nancy

Brough

26 days

Ballina

to R.
Rankin &
Co

June 3

Herbert

Herbert

40 days

Waterford

to order

June 3

Progress

Fegan

48 days

Londonderry

passengers

to Thos
Wallace

June 4

Schr.
Prince
Henry

Durkee

20 days

St. Kitts

to Chas.
McLauchlan,
molasses
and sugar

June 5

Steamer
Herald

Brown

Eastport

passengers

to James
Whitney,
merchandise

We the Committee of the Passengers of the Ship Æolus, of Greenock, Capt.
Michael Driscoll, commander, do send our thanks, in the name of all the
Passengers, to our ever to-be-remembered late landlord, Sir Robert Gore Booth,
Bart., Sligo: he was always kind to his tenants; it was not tyranny which forced
us to emigrate-it was the loss of our crops for two years past: and we hope to
gain a living in America by strict industry and sobriety. We are thankful to henry
Gore Booth, Esquire, the owner of the Æolus, for the ample stores put on board
for the voyage, and the good quality thereof. We are also thankful to Captain
Driscoll, for his upright conduct in the distribution of diet-giving all the same
fair play;-the widows and orphans and the sick were all kindly treated by him,
and his advice to all had a good effect, as there was not a single riot or a blow
struck during the voyage.

Written by Mathias Ferguson, Head Manger.
Sanctioned by the Committee.

Edward Johnston,

Robert Gregg,

Patrick Gilloon,

Hugh Cristal,

Partick Hart,

Dennis Gilloon,

John Mallowny,

Charles Jones,

Thomas Gillan,

Michael McDermott,

Patrick McLoughlin,

Andrew Gilloon,

Adam Johnston,

James Munns,

Bryan Feeny,

Patrick Feeney,

Patrick Boyle,

Michael Smith,

Thomas Keelty,

Wm. Ferguson,

Wm. Johnston,

Owen Toher,

Patrick Heraghty,

John Gillian.

St. John, May 31, 1845.[sic]

The following lists of passengers have been received at this Office, by the 18th
May Mail:--

Malvinia,

183 passengers,

Baltimore,

9th May

Sally,

90 do,

Cork,

13th do.

Caledonia,

69, do.,

Cork,

13th do.

Ruby,

105, do.

Sligo,

8th do.

Nancy,

106, do.

Killala,

3d do.

I. Woodward, A.G.E.A.

Government Emigration Office,
Saint John, N.B. June 5, 1847.

From the Halifax Post, June 3.
Threatened Famine.-Since the arrival of the Steamer on Tuesday, bread stuffs
have taken on extraordinary rise, and the small supply in the market, it is feared
will only last a few days.-Flour is now selling at from $13 to $14 a barrel, and
Corn Meal brings £2!

The arrival of one or two cargoes of emigrants has caused a panic through the
community.-They are afflicted with fever, and are dying rapidly. It is the
imperative duty of the City authorities to enforce the strictest quarantine
regulations, and we believe that measures will be immediately taken to prevent
any more passengers from landing.

If there are any ships at the Ports of the United Kingdom intending to sail with
emigrants for this Port, we sincerely advise them to alter their destination, and
not come where starvation stares them in the face!

The barque Lady Constable arrived at Charlotte Town, (P.E.I.) On the 21st May,
from Liverpool, with 419 passengers. Twenty-five persons died on the passage.
On the 24th the passengers were landed, and the sick sent to the hospital fitted up
for their reception. Eight died after the arrival of the vessel.

Immigration at Quebec.--
Twenty-four vessels were at Grosse Isle with passengers on the 25th May. Deaths
occurred on board of nearly all of them on the passage. One vessel is said to
have had 70 deaths out of 580 passengers.

The Provincial authorities were doing all in their power to alleviate the
sufferings of the sick. The chief Emigrant Agent at Quebec had engaged two
experienced medical men to go to the quarantine station, and assist Dr. Douglas,
the attending physician at Grosse Isle, in administering to the diseased; and
accommodation has been provided for 10,000 persons on the Island. The
Emigrant Agent has also given the necessary orders for the erection of a fever
hospital on Windmill Point, above the canal, to contain two hundred persons. A
shed is also to be erected on the Island wharf.

The Rev. C. Forest, late of Bury, Eastern Townships, has preceeded from
Quebec to Grosse Isle for the season.

The Quebec Gazette of the 28th May says-"There are thirty-five emigrant vessels
at the Quarantine station, and the number of emigrants amount to several thousands, many of them sick and a number dead. It is stated that there are
already fifty orphans at the station, for whom it is to be hoped the Government
will speedily provide an asylum."

The number of emigrants arrived at Quebec to the 27th May, this season, was,
5586-being 214 more than to the same period last year.-Vessels, this year
160-being 169 less than to the 27th May, 1846.

A New Era in Navigation.--
A three-masted schooner, called the New-Brunswick, has recently been landed
with 18,000 bushels of wheat at Chicago, on Lake Michigan, in the State of
Illinois and cleared for Liverpool! She will reach the ocean by the way of the
Welland Canal and the St. Lawrence. This is the first clearance of the kind ever
made in the great inland waters of North America for a port in Europe, and
certainly constitutes a new era in the history of navigation.

The British ship Marion, Robinson, from New Orleans for Liverpool, put into
Hampton Roads on the 26th ult. in distress, having sprung a leak in the Gulph on
the 22d-she was making water at the rate of nine or ten inches per hour. Her
cargo consisted of flour, corn and cotton.

Shipwreck and Great Loss of Life.-The brig Carricks, Thompson, of
Sunderland, from Sligo, bound to Quebec, with 160 passengers, was wrecked
near Gaspe on the 22d ult., when 132 of the passengers and one seaman
drowned.

Card of Thanks.
We, the undernamed Passengers on board the Brig Thorny Close, from Donegal
to St. John, N.B., are deputed by the rest of our fellow-passengers to return to
Captain James Horan our heartfelt thanks for his kind and prompt attention to us
during the time we were sea-sick; and when death spread his devouring shaft
amongst us, and carried away six children, and one woman, by name Mrs.
Magwood, there was he to be seen, consoling and comforting the invalids under
their sad misfortune. We have also to return to each and every man who served
him our grateful thanks for their civility and attention to us when sea-sick.

We should be ungrateful did we allow such unmerited kindness to pass
unnoticed without giving it publicity in the public prints.

Farrel Brogan,

William Brogan,

Walter Long,

Francis Colgan,

Richard McGee,

Robert McJunkin,

Billy McCownly,

Condy Breslin

St. John, N.B., June 17th, 1847.

The Digby Boat will leave next week on Thursday instead of Wednesday
morning.

Emigrants in Canada.--
The Quebec correspondent of the Montreal Herald gives a frightful picture of the
condition of the Emigrants, who are daily arriving from Ireland at Quebec. On
the 10th there were 35 vessels with passengers at quarantine, at Grosse Isle, and
15 between Grosse Ise[sic] and Quebec.

The following is an extract from a letter from Dr. G.M. Douglas to Mr.
Buchanan, for the information of the Mayor.--
"Grosse Isle, Tuesday, 9 A.M.-Out of the 1000 or 5000 that left this place since
Sunday, at least 2000 will fall sick somewhere, before three weeks are over.
They ought to have accommodation for 2000 sick, at least, in Montreal and
Quebec, as all the Cork and Liverpool passengers are half dead from starvation
and want before embarking; and the least bowel complaint, which is sure to
come with change of food, finishes them without a struggle. I never saw people
so indifferent to life. They would continue in the same berth with a dead person
until the seamen or captain dragged out the corpse with boat hooks."

The Montreal Herald, of Saturday, remarks--
"Dr. Douglas's apprehensions are already fulfilled here. Our Marine Hospital is
filling up fast-236 patients in it this morning, and there is only room for 300.
Sheds are being erected on the vacant ground adjoining that building. Several
deaths have occurred in the hospital."

We learn from a gentleman who arrived from Quebec this morning, that at
Grosse Isle on Saturday, 5th instant, there were sixty funerals, and on Monday,
the 7th, one hundred and sixty.

There were about fifteen thousand immigrants on board vessels at anchor, fifteen
hundred of whom were sick, and there were eleven hundred sick on the island. The arrivals at Quebec up to the 10th inst. were 322,-at the same date last year,
475 vessels had arrived.

Late From Boston.--
We were favored this morning by Captain Brown of the Steamer Herald with
Boston papers of Thursday afternoon, brought to Eastport by the new Steamer
Admiral. The Mail Steamer Cambria arrived at Boston on Thursday morning at
eight o'clock. Her news is reported to have caused a decline of 7s. 6d. per barrel
on Flour in the Boston Market.

The passengers by the Admiral were landed in this City in twenty-six hours
from Boston, including the stoppage at Eastport.

The Mail Steamer Hibernia left Boston at one P.M. on Wednesday, with 108
passengers for Liverpool, and ten for Halifax.

The Crops.--
The Washington National Intelligencer says that "from every quarter we hear of
the promising condition of the growing wheat crop. Occasionally there is a note
of complaint that the crop here or there has been winter-killed; but the news of
the death is never confirmed. The truth is that the crops, as a general thing, were
never more promising. With even a tolerable crop, the unusual quantity of seed
which has been put in, both of wheat and Indian corn, will produce a greater
quantity of breadstuff than our country has ever seen before."

New Orleans papers of the 9th inst., give accounts of a dreadful explosion on
board the steamer Eda on the Oachita river-twenty-five persons killed and eight
wounded.

From Mexico, all is rumour...

Government Immigrant Agency,
St. John, N.B. 17th June, 1847.
Lists of Passengers by the following vessels have been received at this Office by
the 4th June Mail:

From

Pas'gs

Cleared

Lady Bagot

Waterford

341

27th May

Kingston

Cork

76

20th do.

Ænæs

do.

66

27th do.

Bache McEver

do

147

22d do

James

do.

156

28th do.

Garland

do.

138

28th do.

Rose

do.

56

28th do.

Gowrie

do.

71

31st do.

Mary

do.

78

28th do.

Abeons

do.

73

31st do.

John Clarke

Londonderry

525

21st do.

Ambassadress

Liverpool

503

27th do.

Royal Mint

Liverpool

166

30th do.

Germ.

Galway

133

28th do.

Bloomfield

do

74

30th do.

Chieftain

do

325

23d. do.

2925

I. Woodward, A.G.E. Agent.

Biographical Sketches of the American Loyalists.--
We have to acknowledge the receipt from the author, of a large and handsomely
printed volume, entitled, "The American Loyalists, or Biographical Sketches of
the Adherents to the British Crown in the War of the Revolution, with a
Preliminary Historical Essay- by Lorenzo Sabine," which has recently been
published by Messrs. Little & Brown, of Boston. The notices of these worthies
appear to be compiled with much care, and must have a cost the indefatigable
author a great deal of labour. The book is extremely well got up, and is a deeply
interesting one to many of the inhabitants of these Provinces, and will no doubt
be anxiously sought after.-We shall have a few copies on sale at our Stationery
Store, in the course of next week.

Gesner's History of New Brunswick.--
We have been favored with a copy of this work, which has lately issued from the
London Press, but we have not had time to examine its contents.-The author
possessed the means of acquiring materials for compiling an interesting and
valuable volume, and such a publication circulated extensively in the Mother
Country would doubtless prove a great benefit to the Province.

New Paper.--
The first number of a large sized weekly Newspaper, under the title of "The
Albion," was issued in this City on Saturday last, by Messrs. Bailey & Day, two
young printers. It makes a respectable appearance, and has our good wishes for
its success.

New Ship.--
A new Ship of 800 tons, called the Neptuna, built at Oromocto by William
Scoullar, Esq, for William Leavitt, Esq., of this city, was piloted through the
Falls by Capt. Wm. Eagles, on Thursday last. She is in every respect a superior
vessel.

We learn from the Miramichi Gleaner of Tuesday last, that twenty passengers
and one of the crew of the ship Looshtauk have died since they were landed at
the Quarantine Station at Miramichi. No new cases of fever had manifested itself
among the passengers since they landed on Middle Island.

Wreck.-

The ship Ceylon, Crisp, of and for this port, from Liverpool, via New-York,
with 250 tons of coal, went ashore on Thursday night, 10th instant, near
Moosepecca head, (State of Maine,) and bilged-crew and materials saved. The
Ceylon was a first-class ship of 754 tons, nearly new, and was owned by Messrs.
Wm. & Jas. Lawton, of this City, and was insured for £6000.

Whale ship James Stewart of this port, with 500 barrels Sperm and 300 of
Black Oil, was discharging at Sidney, (N.S.W.) on the 15th Feb. last, for
shipment to London.

Whale ship Peruvian, of this port, was at New Zealand, Feb. 25th, with 400 brls.
whale oil and 120 of sperm.

Schr, Kate, Billings, hence, at Boston on Sunday last, spoke, same day, off Cape
Ann, brigantine Emily, from St. John, for Philadelphia.

Spoken, off Bermuda, on the 26th May, brig Adelis Ann, Tobin, of St. John, five
days from Norfolk, bound to Barbados-all well.

to John
Robertson
Spoke, 10th
inst. on the
Banks of
Newfoundland,
barque
Susan,
Cronk, of
and from
St. John,
for Cork.

June 22

Schooner
Dolphin

Holder

8 days

Alexandria

to master,
wheat,
corn, and
flour

June 23

Ship
commodore

Prichard

26 days

Liverpool

to Eaton &
Ray, coals,
&c.
June 5, lat.
52 5 N.
long. 31 5
W. spoke
barque
Lisbon, of
St. John,
17 days
from
Liverpool,
for New
York, with
passengers-a ship in
sight at the
time,
which
Capt.
Fisher of
the
Lisbon,
reported to
be the
John
Clarke,
Capt.
Disbrow,
from
Londonderry, for St.
John, with
passengers; June 10th, lat. 49 26
N. long. 39
46 W.
exchanged
signals
with the
ship
Goliah, 18
days from
Liverpool,
with
passengers,
bound to
Quebec.

to S.
Wiggins &
Son
Spoke, in
lat. 43,
long. 47,
barque
Una, from
New
Orleans,
for
Liverpool;
in lat. 47,
long. 42,
spoke ship
Jane
Hammond, from St.
John for
Liverpool-out 10
days.

June 25

Coquet

Robson

45 days

Newcastle

to John
Mackay,
coals, &c.

June 25

Brigantine
Helen
Anna

Leonard

Galway

passengers

to S.
Wiggins &
Son

June 25

Schr Jessie

Smith

13 days

Halifax

to master,
sugar

June 25

Steamer
Admiral

Rodgers

23½ hours

Boston

passengers

to James
Whitney

June 25

Maid of
Erin

Leavitt

Portland

passengers

to Thomas
Parks,
merchandise

June 26

Schooner
Æneas

_______

28 days

Cork

62
passengers

to John
Mackay

Passengers in the ship Themis, from Liverpool--Rev. Mr. Gilchrist, Miss
Cheyne, Mr. Pratt, and Mr. Melden and two chidlren.

Passengers in the Ship Caledonia, sailed this morning for Liverpool-The Hon.
William Black, President of the legislative Council of this Province, and the two
Misses Black.

The Mail for England, to meet the sailing of the Steamer Cambria from Halifax
on the 3d of July, will be closed at the General Post Office in this city on
Wednesday next, 30th inst., at three o'clock in the afternoon.

The French Steamer.--
The sailing of the first packet of the French line to New York, was postponed till
the 10th instant, according to information brought by passengers in the Cambria.
The agent in New York attributes the delay to want of action on the part of the
French government.

Boston and Portland.--
The steamer Portland, under command of Capt. Seymour, her late Clerk, a good
pilot, and an excellent man, is to take her place on the sea route between Boston
and Portland on the 26th inst., and will make three trips a week. She is to be put
in complete order for the service.

Five Priests who had proceeded to Grosse Isle to attend to the suffering
emigrants, returned to Quebec, having been attacked by the fever. Two others
subsequently proceeded to the station.

Notice.
The Semi-Annual Visitation and Examination of the GRAMMAR SCHOOL of
the City of Saint John, will be held on TUESDAY, the 29th instant, at 10, A.M.
J.H. Gray,
Secretary
June 26.

It is stated in the Bermuda Herald that the West India Mail Steamers are in future
to come to that Island direct from England, and that Government has therefore
given notice that the services of the Mail-Boats between Halifax and Bermuda,
will not be any longer required.

New Vessels.-
The Sultana, a fine and beautiful ship of 1128 tons measurement, was launched
on the 12th inst. for the Building Yard of John Jardine, Esq. at Richibucto. Her length on deck is 159 feet-breadth, 33½, and depth 24 feet.

A fine Barque of 341 tons, named the Surinan, was launched from the building
Yard of the Hon. Joseph Cunard at Kouchibouguac on the 11th inst.

Brig Emerald, Margeson, from Boston, for Parrsboro, (N.S.) Went ashore on
Duck Island, near Mount Desert, in a thick fog, on the morning of the 11th inst.
and became a total wreck-crew and passengers saved, also the sails and rigging,
and about 30 brls. of flour in a damaged state.

The British Schr. Columbian Packet, from Baltimore for Glasgow, was
capsized in a squall off Cape Henry, on the 14th inst., and sunk in 7 fathoms. The
carpenter, cook, and two seamen, who were in the forecastle, were drowned. The
remainder of the crew, with Capt. Marshall, (Who was taken from the mast-head
in a state of nudity) were saved.

Another Wreck.--
The ship Boadices, of London, Captain Walden, four days from Boston, went
ashore in a fog, at Abbots Harbour, (Pubnico,) on Monday night. There is no
hope, we understand, that she will be got off.-Yarmouth Herald.

It has been before stated that the British ship Leander, from Liverpool, for
Savannah, was abandoned at sea in a sinking condition, April 19th, lat. 27, long.
71 30, and that Capt. Phelan with his family and part of his crew arrived at
Nassau on the 24th. They reached that place in the long boat with much
difficulty. The jolly boat with four men and a boy was lost sight of on the 24th,
but Capt. P. thinks the people were saved, as the boat made very good weather.
At 10 A.M. the same day, the pinnace, with the first officer and ten men,
suddenly disappeared when about a mile and a half distant, and although the
long boat beat to windward an hour and forty minutes, no signs of her could be
found, except some lamp oil, which was known to be in the boat, on the surface
of the sea.

...A government train for Santa Fe, under Capt. Thorp, had been attacked near
Cottonwood Fort, by the Camanche Indians, and Capt. Thorp and twelve or
fifteen men had been killed. The Indians got possession of a large number of
cattle, mules, and other articles.

His Excellency the Lieutenant Governor and family returned to Fredericton to-day, in the steamer St. John.

Fines.--
We understand that during the week His Worship the Mayor imposed fines upon
four persons for selling unwholesome meat in the City, one for keeping a
disorderly house, one for driving a cart on a side-walk, and another for driving
without license. We are glad to learn that such infringements of the law are not
overlooked.

We understand that Dr. Collins, one of the Physicians on Partridge Island, is ill
of fever.

Capt. Hall, of the ship Pallas, who had been landed on partridge Island from that
vessel, we are sorry to say, died there, last evening, of typhus fever.

Ship Launch.--
A very superior and splendid coppered ship of 650 tons, called the Loch Ste[o]y,
was launched this morning from the Building yard of Messrs. F. & J. Ruddick.
She is owned by William Carvill, Esq., and is equal, in point of model, materials
and workmanship, to any vessel ever built at this port. She is to be commanded
by Capt. P. Burns.

Sudden Death.--
Mr. William Seeley, a Branch Pilot of this Port, came to an awfully sudden death
on Sunday last. It appears that he was to the act of descending the steps on
Partridge Island, at the entrance of this Harbour, for the purpose of getting into
his boat, in company with another pilot, who preceeded him, but, in doing so, he
fell from the steps, and, striking upon his head on the rocks below, was instantly
killed. Mr. Seeley was 34 years of age, and has left a wife and three small
children, who, by this melancholy dispensation, have, in a moment, been
deprived of their dearest earthly friend.

Miramichi.--
We learn from the Gleaner of Tuesday last, that the deaths at Middle Island (the
Quarantine Station,) were twenty-seven, seventeen since the 15th instant. There
were at the station 290 passengers from the Looshtank. Three of the seamen
belonging to this vessel had died, and the second mate still continuing very ill.
There were about 350 persons on the Island, of whom 25 to 30 were orphans.
From the insufficiency of the buildings and canvas booths, many of those who
were convalescing had caught cold from the wet, and were again reduced to a
feeble state.